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Americans --- What they are is revealed by their tastes




   You can best judge a person by his tastes, by his likes and 
   dislikes, by his values.  What are America's tastes?  What kind 
   of people are Americans?  Listen to their music.  Note their 
   idols.  Watch their drama.  Look at their art.  Read their 
   literature.  There you will learn.  It all tells.  They like 
   degenerate music.  Their drama is corrupt.  Their art is 
   degenerate.  Their literature is harsh and crude.  Whether one 
   looks at America's art, music, literature or whatever he finds 
   it laced with crudeness, lust, sex and moral sickness.  Check 
   the newspaper for what is playing at area theaters and see if 
   you can find anything that has any value or virtue.  Watch what 
   is on television for a week and see what is there.  Ninety 
   percent of it revolves about lust and violence.  What kinds of 
   magazines do they like to read?  They like Playboy, Playgirl, 
   Hustler and Penthouse.

   And you can hardly say that, in general, Americans are very 
   intellectual.  The programs that get the popularity ratings on 
   television are not very profound.  A serial that has dramatic 
   car chases ending in gigantic crashes will run with small 
   variations in the plot day after day.  All a program needs to 
   be popular is lots of action, lots of violence and lots of lust 
   and sex.  That is all Americans require.  That satisfies all 
   their deepest spiritual and intellectual needs.  That keeps 
   them going from day to day.  That and their football games. 

   Considering all this it is not hard to understand that when 
   people from foreign countries visit America, or when they see 
   American movies or TV programs, they see Americans as 
   permissive, immoral, and brutish.  It is easy to understand.  
   It is the way Americans look to them.


   Nov 1984





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